And this is art. This is metaphor.

And in a way that's a metaphor for life.

Their central metaphor is a loom.

Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden.

And I'm like, What is this jacked up metaphor?

And now I can't get I can't shake the metaphor.

And in that light, you go back and you look at Michael Najjar's photographs, and you realize that they're not metaphor, they're prophecy.

So I'd like to conclude with a physical metaphor.

You have to convey the actual content here we get back to the container metaphor.

And this metaphor in my head I got anagnorisis and peripetia on my chin.

In a strict metaphorical way of speaking, as it were.

I, too, am fond of metaphors. During a trip to the continent last week, I heard one that captures very well the key dynamic in Europe today.

There's a metaphor which I love living like a drawing compass.

And I think it's a nice metaphor also for the 21st century.

In this case, history is not a metaphor. On the contrary, the root cause of the Eastern European attitudes now on grim display is to be found in World War II and its aftermath.

And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

How do we go from the metaphor to something more practical that we can really use every day?

Was what was happening in Ghana a metaphor for what was happening in me?

I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really, aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope like they invented it, right?

It's very hard to find any example of abstract language that is not based on some concrete metaphor.

To think about culture variation, let's try a different metaphor.

We use words like grasp metaphorically to also think about understanding things.

An additional twist is that all of the constructions in English are used not only literally, but in a quasi metaphorical way.

Now, I think that this is a great metaphor for the state of architecture and architects today.

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

Now, that's a great idea, but what I'd like to say is that, in fact, this is a great metaphor for the way that ideas happen.

Impossible!

So if I can finish with a metaphor for intervention, what we need to think of is something like mountain rescue.

It evokes the container metaphor of communication, in which we conceive of ideas as objects, sentences as containers, and communication as a kind of sending.

We turn facts into similes and metaphors, and even fantasies.

Take cover! Take cover!

And, for any Finnish people in the audience, this is a Finnish pun we are, both literally and metaphorically, skating on thin ice if we don't understand that kind of thing.

Hide implicit members

That goes without saying.

Nonsense!

Obviously!

Crude.

But in this room...

But it hurts so.

Don't reveal it. Don't let anyone know your caste.

But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is you have to do away with a lot of the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation.

I tell that story, because it has served and continues to serve as a metaphor to me about the level of connectedness that we all have on this Earth.

This is not a metaphor.

He's a hard boy to reason with.

I think she has a vague idea.